I have my Artifice lvl'd all the way to Max (400/400) but I can only make lvl 22 enhancements. How are people crafting lvl 26 and 27 mods? Do the recipe's drop from FP's or Ops or something? Just seems kind of pointless to craft lvl 22's when all the good stuff is so much higher lvl. The only thing that I can craft that's worth anything are Relics, but even those are easily replaced. How can I make money on the GTN? Just start crafting lower lvl stuff to sell for people's Alt's?

Man, great info, guess I better get busy to get ready for the expansion, LOL. Thanks a lot everyone, this points me in a good direction and at least I know what to focus on, I did HM KP with my guild last night, we only wiped once and I was in Tionese, so I think I'm starting well. Appreciate all the information, and don't forget, "peace is a lie"..... LOL, thanks, cya

WOOT! I made it, only took me a year.... (I'm married and have a young son). Anyway, I have most of my Tionese gear. Now what? Should I just start doing Hard Mode FP's? Or get with my guild to try some OPS? I figured I should gear into some Black Hole gear before doing Ops. But what else? I have my crafting maxed in artifice. Just not real sure what to do. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

LOL, ok, very well, I'll just go with my current build. It's working for me and I'm loving this class, it's so much fun to play. I can't wait to start doing ops with a big group, should be really fun....

This is my current build. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#100rIbRroMfsZhRZM.2 I know Brutality is an appealing skill, but I don't see how malice helps us. Malice seems like a waste of 3 points, It helps with "FORCE" criticals, other than force choke which I rarely use, what's the point? Is there another skill I'm overlooking that uses force to do damage? I just think taking Defensive Forms and Narrow Hatred seem like better options, with the added accuracy it allows me to use more Power/Surge/Crit on my gear. This is just my line of thinking, I'm an older gamer so I'm not super quick with the rotations and Min/Maxing, the added defense helps me survive. I'm only lvl 48, and all I play is PVE. But I should hit 50 by Saturday. Any and all advice would be helpful.

Hmmm, yeah, I've been reading through the threads on here about lethality builds and it seems like the overall opinion is that they do great DoT's, but due to Cull & TA mechanics it's not a great DPS class. You have to be close to do damage but you have no defensive skills, I think I'm going to reroll sniper. At least get some long range DPS and defense.

I started an Operative and I can't figure out the best way to play it. It has cover mechanics but there only a couple hard hitting skills. Shiv does great damage and so does backstab, there are also more damage dealing skills when I'm not in cover, but I only use medium armor so I'm fairly squishy. Usually I'll send in my comp then I'll start doing damage behind the enemy, but I do such good damage that I draw aggro, then I die. If I stay behind cover I can't do as much damage but I stay alive longer. It's a very confusing class to play, I'm spec'd DPS in the lethality tree, I don't really like the healing skills either so I don't want to make a healing spec. I chose this spec over a sniper cuz I thought it would be more fun to play, but I must be doing something wrong cuz I die a LOT. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks all.

Thanks for the replies, I see your point that it would take away the social aspect, I mostly solo so I didn't think of that. But yeah, I just think that each planet should have an area to buy your craft missions and new schematics and things of that nature.

Do you get upgrades later? For example, could I maybe get a MOD machine on my ship, or mail, or maybe access to the Auction? I find it really frustrating that I fly to a new planet (Balmora) and can't do anything I need to, I have to fly back to Dramand Kaas to Mod, mail, auction and other key things. I think it would be really cool if everything was accessible from your ship.

There are so many little things in this game that bug the hell out of me. I love the game, and honestly it's hard to believe that it runs as well as it does and has so much content. But it's the little things.

I built a character on a PVP server and I don't really play PVP stuff, I'm more of a take my time PVE kinda guy. Can I switch that character to the PVE server that I'm currently playing on? Is there a fee, not sure where to go or who to ask about this. Customer service?

Awesome! Such a simple thing to add, now I have to read through hundreds of topics or post a question that's been answered a thousand times already. Hmmmm, what to do, think I'll just post the new thread.

Ok, I'll look for that. You'd think that would be a default setting, I mean why make you go looking for something that should just be there? Thanks for the help all.

Every time I find new loot for my companion, I look in my inventory then try to compare what they have equipped, but it only does the comparison for what is on my main toon. I don't get this, I have to study the loot then mouse over the loot equipped on them before I know if I can equip it, kinda sucks.

I know this is a dumb question, but on most forums there is a search forum button with like a drop down and filters. I just can't seem to find one on here....